Lord Melbourne was recorded by Grainger from George Wray of Brigg, Lincolnshire, in 1906.  :The name is usually Marlborough; Mr. Wray had confused it with the name of another notable aristocrat.  Further information here:  Lyric Correct? Lord Marlborough

The first Rufford Park text above, that recorded by Percy Grainger from Joseph Taylor of Brigg, Lincolnshire, in 1906 and 1908, is the only authentically traditional set.  The texts transcribed from records by Martin Carthy, Coope, Boyes & Simpson and Roberts & Barrand are all arrangements of the expanded version of the song, which was written around the 1960s by Patrick O'Shaughnessy of Lincolnshire, using material from contemporary accounts of the incident.  They only vary in a few minor particulars.

Horkstow Grange was recorded from George Gouldthorpe of Brigg, Lincolnshire, in 1908.